Re: interesting wireless card and linux issue

From: Philippe Michiels (philippe@michiels.nu)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 05:54:00 EDT


Hey Charles,

Are you sure you're on the same wireless channel as your router in suse ?
I use a linksys router and pcmcia with ndiswrapper to use the windows
driver in my gentoo.

Also i installed wireless-tools, which are a great help to analyze and
config your wireless system.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

Hope this helps,

charles.tendell@us.army.mil wrote:

>ok heres the problem I have a linksys wireless router and a motorola wireless card on my laptop im running dual boot xp suse 9.1.
>when im wireless on windows everything works fine, howeverwhen im on suse the card detects the network and i can ping to the router its pulling an ip adress and everything on the router is set up as default with no WEP. why is it that i cannot access the internet aand how can i fix this
>thankx in advance
>
>ive already checked the routing tables and done the renew on the network connection in use i just cannot get to the internet
>
>Charles
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